the Gambler

Harry had literally been dropped in a room at random, and he didn't even know its approximate location.The crackling sound of Winky Apparition attracted the attention of other Death Eaters. Immediately afterwards, the manor seemed to be in chaos, and there were shouts everywhere. Then someone discovered that Sirius was missing, and the chaos became more and more serious. It's getting stronger.He moved silently to the side of the lowered curtain, gently lifted the fabric and looked out, Malfoy Manor was now as bright as day, house elves appeared and disappeared out of thin air, their numbers made up for the missing Death Eater guards, at this moment Harry was extremely thankful that he had put to good use the invisibility cloak his father had left behind.

Suddenly the scar on Harry's forehead seemed to be torn open again, and Voldemort's joyful laughter was transmitted through the painful brain.For some reason, Harry felt that the other party was aware of his existence and was slowly approaching where he was.He clenched his teeth tightly, and the burning pain made him unable to concentrate. At the same time, he seemed to see Tom's surprised expression flashing in his mind.But these are not important anymore. Before he could hide, the door behind him was opened.

"My God, look who I've got!" Bellatrix screamed excitedly. "Boy Potter! Are you in such a hurry to die? My cousin must be very upset. Oh, Poor Sirius—”

"I don't know if you're here to die, Bella dear." Harry suppressed the pain and mocked the other party in a drawn-out tone, "but I'm sure you'll be the most pitiful one here."

"What a big tone, didn't your mother teach you to be humble? Oh, sorry, I forgot that you don't have parents." Bellatrix said completely unapologetically.

"Only people with real strength will do this." Harry pulled out his wand, and quickly cut open Bellatrix's robe, leaving a deep bone wound on his left leg, "I forgot to tell you that Sirius has been rescued." gone."

"You bloody bastard!" Bellatrix swung his wand vigorously, and the huge black snake pounced on Harry. The latter dodged sideways, and tripped over the carpet for some unknown reason. He fell to the ground.He couldn't help the sound of pain.

The black snake quickly entangled Harry's body, and under the control of Bellatrix, the strength around Harry gradually increased. He felt that all the bones in his body were making rattling sounds, as if they were about to be twisted. Like.A nasty taste rose in Harry's throat, like blood mixed with stomach acid.Seeing the boy's pained expression, Bellatrix smiled contemptuously.

"/Go away!/" Black Snake was stunned for a moment, then slowly retracted.

Bellatrix's eyes widened and he shouted, "Attack him! Attack Potter!"

Black Snake took another half step forward.

"/Stop! I order you to stop!/" Harry gritted his teeth, adding more menace in his tone, which made the hissing sound all the more creepy, and he turned his burning green eyes to an unbelievably large Panting witch.The pain of the bone being almost crushed made Harry's voice harden, "/Attack her! Attack that woman!/"

The black snake looked at Harry and then at Bellatrix in bewilderment, as if deciding whose order to follow.Harry pushed harder, and this time, the black snake changed direction and rushed towards Bellatrix. The witch let out a desperate scream, and quickly waved her wand a few times. The black snake's body suddenly stopped in mid-air In the process, it shook a few times, and fell limply on the carpet as if it had lost its bones.

"Except your weapons!"

Bellatrix's wand flew into Harry's hand, and before he could show his complacency, the witch suddenly jumped at Harry with all her teeth and claws, her bright red nails drew several bloodstains on the boy's face.The anger caused Harry to blurt out a sentence in Latin: "Cruciate!"

Harry kicked Bellatrix's body away hard, watching the witch writhe in mid-air like a drowning person.Her shrill screams even had an echo effect in the empty room.Harry knew that other people would pay attention to what was going on here soon, that there might be another horde of Death Eaters, but he couldn't talk himself out of torturing them, Bellatrix deserved it, Harry remembered In the unforgettable scene just now, he was just lucky that Shining appeared suddenly and took away the almost dying Sirius.

Harry stood up panting, pointing his wand at Bellatrix's nose.The witch's body was still lying twisted on the floor, smelling of blood and sweat.A satisfying feeling came over Harry, those stings seemed to disappear in an instant, maybe they were still there, but the great joy completely masked the pain, and Harry paced around Bellatrix's twitching body , with a happy smile on his face.

Lifting his wand slightly, he laughed maniacally at Bellatrix: "How does it taste? I'm sure you enjoy it, and hope it's not much worse than your Master's."

"I'm glad it pleases you, I'm very aroused by your performance."

A cruel smile slid down Harry's spine, and he gave a free shudder before turning to face Voldemort's handsome face.Harry's breathing was short of breath, a great fear clogging his throat.The man stretched out his finger, and severe pain was transmitted along the contact point. Harry covered his head, as if being bitten by thousands of bugs at the same time, he finally couldn't stand it anymore, and his consciousness was slowly overwhelmed by endless darkness.

"I sensed Harry's emotions." Tom said suddenly to Draco, "but only for a moment, I believe Voldemort also found out his location."

Draco's face was pale and trembling: "Then what should we do?"

"You're a Malfoy, and those house-elves obey your orders. I need you to instruct them not to act casually." Tom said, squinting his eyes at the noisy manor.

"They must be following their parents' orders," Draco whispered. "I can't undo the order."

"Then try to solve the problem, aren't you a Slytherin? Use your brains, since only the person who gave the order can take back the order, shouldn't you go to your parents now?"

"What? I can't! My father is a Death Eater, and he won't betray the Dark Lord!"

"He's still a Malfoy. I believe your father has the ability to act as Voldemort's right-hand man. This small problem is not difficult to solve." Tom tapped his palms casually with his wand, "Persuade him to change sides. Summon the house-elf and put You bring it to Lucius."

"what--"

Tom raised his wand and cast the Disillusionment Charm on himself, pointing to a house-elf in the clearing: "The house-elf is flying!"

Draco opened his eyes just in time to meet Lucius' stunned expression.Two Malfoys stood staring wide-eyed in the middle of the silent corridor.Lucius was the first to calm down. He cleared his throat and said calmly, "I think you should stay at Hogwarts now. Does appearing here mean that you intend to accept the brand of Death Eaters?"

"No, Father, I won't be a Death Eater." Draco said firmly, looking up at a surprised Lucius, "The Dark Lord - he's a madman, he doesn't have the power to give pure-blood wizards the honor they deserve. "

Lucius paled instantly, and hurriedly pulled his son to the corner: "Are you crazy?"

"I will stand behind Marvolo Gaunt and Harry Potter. This is the choice that a truly shrewd Slytherin would make." Anyway, there was no way out, Draco simply broke his can, "I hope you It can also be stopped in time."

"Now I think you're really out of your head—"

"It's quite dramatic." Amycus Caro appeared from nowhere, with his wand held high in front of his chest, and he smiled triumphantly, "What do you think the lord will think? Racco, Lucius Malfoy's only son is the one who betrayed him. I think he'll give me the job of performing the Cruciatus Curse, what do you think?"

"Carlo, Draco is just immature, he didn't really betray the Dark Lord." Lucius returned to his calm mask, puffed out his chest and said proudly, "The lord will forgive his childish behavior, and he didn't Evidence can show Draco's betrayal."

"Don't think you can fool me like this, Malfoy!" Amycus snarled, and Draco was suddenly thankful that there weren't many people in the manor, and that the Dark Lord was dealing with Harry.He emerged from behind his father's body and quickly cast the Shattering Charm, which was easily bounced off by Amycus.The Death Eater laughed exaggeratedly, and looked at Draco greedily like a dog seeing a bone: "I know! I know! You are a traitor!"

Amycus threw out 'Shenfeng Wuying', Draco couldn't dodge it, the spell passed across this arm, and blood gushed out.He curled up on the blood-stained floor, shaking uncontrollably, and it became difficult to even breathe.

"Damn it, hold on, Draco!" Lucius tucked his son behind the armor with a pale face, and turned to face the laughing Amycus.After several rounds, both of them had scars.Not paying attention to the blond hair hanging on his forehead, Lucius growled like a beast: "I will kill you, Carlo!"

"As if you were capable!" Amycus said triumphantly, his smile froze on his face and he fell forward, revealing Snape holding his wand behind him.The latter pushed the sluggish Lucius aside after finishing Amycus cleanly, and crouched beside Draco, slipping his wand along the wound and spitting out strange incantations.The wound healed slowly, but fortunately the curse missed a little bit, and the blood loss was not much. Draco regained consciousness soon. He looked weakly at Carlo's body and let out a suppressed cry.

"Shut up, I didn't intend to attract more people over," Snape said angrily.

"You, you are a Death Eater!" Draco took a few steps back in horror.

Snape snorted, "Thank you for reminding me of this couldn't be more obvious truth."

"Draco was right." Lucius pointed his wand at the back of Snape's head, "You'll tell the Dark Lord about it, and our family will be completely ruined."

"I thought it was ruined." Snape pushed his wand away impatiently. "He won't forgive you. It's best to run away."

"Wait, the Dark Lord didn't know it was me who brought the man in," Draco added. "No one has tracked me down. Marvolo took another route."

Snape snorted heavily.

Lucius poked his head out to check out the corridor, and was relieved to be sure that no one was there. He turned and faced the stiff boy again, with a very ugly expression on his face: "He must have designed you to sneak into Malfoy Manor on purpose, Salazar, don't tell I, you forgot that the master has the ability to detect magic marks, especially the familiar ones! He used your life to threaten the Malfoy family to betray him! Hell, thanks to you, I have to adjust the barrier and try to hold the Death Eaters out It's time, and I took Sissy along to escape. You know where the gap will be." He turned his head and gave Snape an uncertain look, "You look calm."

"I'm a spy." Snape said, "Draco, I advise you not to run around. You'd better find a way to reconcile with Potter. I have a hunch that the only person who can save your life is that little bastard."

Neither Malfoy nor he spoke.

"You'd better take Narcissa to Hogwarts, there is no safer place, although I suspect that it will become a battlefield soon." Snape waved his wand, and a silver-white doe jumped and charged Out of the manor, disappeared in the middle of the vast forest.Not paying attention to Lucius' eyebrows that were almost raised into the hairline, Snape left without looking back after leaving a word.

"Minerva will receive news of your change of faction."

As soon as the words fell, Lucius completely gave up his image and ran wildly.